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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>,
	Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org,
	quintela@redhat.com, yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com, quan.xu0@gmail.com,
	liliang.opensource@gmail.com, pbonzini@redhat.com,
	nilal@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/5] virtio-balloon: free page hint reporting support
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2018 17:40:46 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180605173952-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180605064240.GA9216@xz-mi>

On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 02:42:40PM +0800, Peter Xu wrote:
> > I think the answer is no - it doesn't matter; by telling the hypervisor
> > the page is 'free' the kernel gives freedom to the hypervisor to
> > discard the page contents.
> 
> Yeh it seems so.

Well not exactly.  I replied to parent with a clarification.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-05 14:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-24  6:13 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/5] virtio-balloon: free page hint reporting support Wei Wang
2018-04-24  6:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 1/5] bitmap: bitmap_count_one_with_offset Wei Wang
2018-04-24  6:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 2/5] migration: use bitmap_mutex in migration_bitmap_clear_dirty Wei Wang
2018-06-01  3:37   ` Peter Xu
2018-04-24  6:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 3/5] migration: API to clear bits of guest free pages from the dirty bitmap Wei Wang
2018-06-01  4:00   ` Peter Xu
2018-06-01  7:36     ` Wei Wang
2018-06-01 10:06       ` Peter Xu
2018-06-01 12:32         ` Wei Wang
2018-06-04  2:49           ` Peter Xu
2018-06-04  7:43             ` Wei Wang
2018-04-24  6:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 4/5] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT Wei Wang
2018-05-29 15:24   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-05-30  9:12     ` Wei Wang
2018-05-30 12:47       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-05-31  2:27         ` Wei Wang
2018-05-31 17:42           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-06-01  3:18             ` Wei Wang
2018-06-04  8:04         ` Wei Wang
2018-06-05  6:58           ` Peter Xu
2018-06-05 13:22             ` Wei Wang
2018-06-06  5:42               ` Peter Xu
2018-06-06 10:04                 ` Wei Wang
2018-06-06 11:02                   ` Peter Xu
2018-06-07  5:24                     ` Wei Wang
2018-06-07  6:32                       ` Peter Xu
2018-06-07 11:59                         ` Wei Wang
2018-06-08  2:17                           ` Peter Xu
2018-06-08  7:14                             ` Wei Wang
2018-06-08  7:31                         ` Wei Wang
2018-06-06  6:43   ` Peter Xu
2018-06-06 10:11     ` Wei Wang
2018-06-07  3:17       ` Peter Xu
2018-06-07  5:29         ` Wei Wang
2018-06-07  6:58           ` Peter Xu
2018-06-07 12:01             ` Wei Wang
2018-06-08  1:37               ` Peter Xu
2018-06-08  1:58                 ` Peter Xu
2018-06-08  1:58                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-06-08  2:34                   ` Peter Xu
2018-06-08  2:49                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-06-08  3:34                       ` Peter Xu
2018-04-24  6:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 5/5] migration: use the free page hint feature from balloon Wei Wang
2018-04-24  6:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/5] virtio-balloon: free page hint reporting support Wei Wang
2018-05-14  1:22 ` Wei Wang
2018-05-29 15:00 ` Hailiang Zhang
2018-05-29 15:24   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-06-01  4:58 ` Peter Xu
2018-06-01  5:07   ` Peter Xu
2018-06-01  7:29     ` Wei Wang
2018-06-01 10:02       ` Peter Xu
2018-06-01 12:31         ` Wei Wang
2018-06-01  7:21   ` Wei Wang
2018-06-01 10:40     ` Peter Xu
2018-06-01 15:33       ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2018-06-05  6:42         ` Peter Xu
2018-06-05 14:40           ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2018-06-05 14:39         ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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